GASTON DESCHAPS: La Grece d aujourdhui. Paris 1896 A classical book on late 19th-century Greece. In 8vo (19x13 cm). Contemporary leather, upper cover gilt-stamped with the device of Lycée de Laval. Text clean and bright. Complete: 388 p. Overall in almost fine condition. Deschamps (1861–1931), a leading French archaeologist, served at the French School at Athens from 1885, touring extensively throughout Greece. His accounts soon became classics of travel literature. Returning to Paris in 1893, he remained an ardent Philhellene. A detailed description of Greece in the late 1880s.